Show and Tell Friday

I can't believe how fast this week has flown by!!!  Friday's seem to sneak up on me so quickly lately!  This week I'm sharing a plant stand that I bought at Marshalls a couple years ago.  I'm not really sure how it was supposed to be used but I put moss around the bottom and sides and filled it with soil and plants...It's been in my backyard for awhile now and it's holding up well!These are

I'm going back to school!

I've decided to do something I should have done a long time ago... I'm going back to school to become an Interior Designer!  Lauren is now almost 18 so I thought it's time for me to do what I should have done when I was 18.  I remember looking into it back then but decided against it.  Over the years I've thought about doing it numerous times but with having a family and working full time, I just

Coconut Cupcakes!

We moved to a new building at work yesterday so for the last week I've been going through 8 years worth of stuff deciding what to keep and what to throw away.  It's so amazing how much junk and old paperwork, not to mention dust I have accumulated over that time!  It was worth it now that we are in our nice new office space!  You're probably wondering what the heck that has to do with cupcakes...

Homemade Strawberry Ice Cream

It was such a beautiful weekend in the San Francisco Bay Area!  Yesterday it was about 80 degrees!  Lauren and I went to the Farmer's Market and I came home with a lot of strawberries!  I froze some for smoothies, kept some to eat fresh and made homemade strawberry ice cream with the remainder!  I have a Donvier Ice Cream Maker. It's really easy to use because you don't have to mess with ice and

Show and Tell Friday

This week for Show and Tell, I'm going to share some beautiful gifts I received awhile back. 
These beautiful chintz plates were from M.~Tales from an O.C. Cottage.  I just need to rearrange things a little bit to make room for them in here...I think I may need a bigger cabinet to display them soon!
The next gift I receieved awhile back was from Elsie.  Elsie doesn't have a blog but she leaves

Napa Valley Part 3

This is part three and the final post of my day trip to the Napa Valley, scroll down to see part 1 and 2.
By late afternoon we were needing a cup of coffee to recharge and Dean & Deluca was the perfect place!More amazing pastries to temp us...



Later in the evening it was time for dinner.  When we pulled in the parking lot of the restaraunt this is what we saw...more beautiful vine covered

Napa Valley Part 2

This is Part 2 of my day trip to Napa Valley. If you missed Part 1 just scroll down to yesterday's post. 
After we left the Alpha Omega Winery we stopped at the V. Sattui Winery in St. Helena.  This is the most gorgeous place of all the wineries we visited!  My only regret is that we didn't do any wine tasting here. We arrived here at the end of the day and just stopped to look around but now